Smith dewey pierce



s. D. PIERCE. SAMPLE 0F PAINT.

(Application filed June so, 1897.)

(No Model.)

Patented Ian. 3, I899.

WITNESSES.

I r k I ATTORNEY SMITH DEIVEY PIERCE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAMPLE OF PAINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 617,119, dated January 3, 1899. Application filed June 30, 1897. Serial No. 643,018. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SMITH DEWEY PIERCE, a citizen of the United States, residing in New York, (Brooklyn,) Kings county, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Samples of Paints; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention is in the nature of an improved sample for effectively displaying colors, pigments, or paints to the jobber, retailer, orconsumer. Heretofore samples have been formed for this purpose of rigid plates of glass having their backs coated with the paint to be displayed and protected by a backing of textile material, the glass front being designed to impart an attractive luster to the color of the paint; but such samples are easily broken, are difficult to mail, transport, or carry with safety, and cannot be flexed to show the effects of the "light on variouslycurved surfaces or to contrast or compare different colors in juxtaposition.

The sample in which I incorporate my invention has a body of felt, or it may be cloth or like textile or fibrous fabric of a tough flexible nature, on the front of which is cemented a flexible transparent facing of thin celluloid, or it may be other equivalent material having its back coated with the paint to be displayed. The sample is thus alight, soft, tough, and flexible sort of paint-displaying cloth which can be flexed, handled, and sent through the mails or otherwise.transported, like tailors samples of cloth, without danger of cracking, breaking, or any injury whatsoever, and whose color is given an attractive luster by the overlying celluloid, while the paint lying between the celluloid facing and the felt body is fully protected from abrasion or crocking.

In order that my invention may be fully ascertained, I shall first describe in detail the mode in which I practice my invention, and then particularly claim the same.

Reference is had by letters to the accompanying drawing, which represents a paintdisplaying sample embodying my invention.

This sample is formed of a body A of felt or equivalent fibrous or textile material of a soft, tough, and flexible nature, which I shall designate by the general term cloth, on the front of which is cemented by glue or other wise a flexible transparent facing B, of thin celluloid or equivalent material having its cemented side or back previously coated with the paint 0 to be displayed and preferably dried before being thus cemented to the body.

In practice I prefer to coat large sheets of the celluloid with the paint and cement the same to correspondingly large pieces of the cloth and then cut up the large composite sheets thus formed into small samples of the desired size, as illustrated in the drawing. The cloth display-samples thus formed are, as before stated, light, soft, and tough, and can be safely handled, flexed into any desired shape, and sent through the mails or otherwise transported without the least fear of breaking, cracking, or injury. Two or more samples can be lapped over each other and flexed to any degree desired to show the effects of the light thereon or to compare or contrast the colors without danger of injury. The overlying transparent facing of celluloid imparts its luster to the paint and greatly enhances the appearance of the same, while the coating of paint is wholly protected by the overlying facing and underlying cloth.

I am aware that it is not new to paint on celluloid and kindred material. I am also aware that pictures and prints on paper or other. sheets have been interposed between sheets of-celluloid for protection against water and moisture; but it is evident that neither of these are intended for or would serve the useful purposes of my soft, light, flexible, and tough paint-display cloth samples, as hereinbefore set forth.

What I claim is 1. A sample of paint made of a body of cloth, to the front of which is'cemented a facin g of thin, flexible, transparent celluloid having its back coated with the paint.

2. A sample of paint made of a thin, flexi ble, transparent facing having its back coated with the paint and a body of cloth cemented thereto by said paint.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 28th day of June, 1897.

SMITH DEWEY PIERCE.

In presence of RUSSELL LORD TARBOX, WILLIAM O. JOHNSTON. 

